Hotlegs said:

Yes, he was funny (often unintentionally), but he didn't have the incredible voice or sheer magnetism of Mercury. Really, I don't think there is any comparison, since Mercury is a true legend, while Dave was a fun, party rocker.

origmnd said:

well said

JediMaster said:

You're correct.The key word here with David is party rocker and people need to remember that.

Difficult question: Dave/Steve Vai and Freddie /Brian May

Probably, ah, of course Freddie.

but steve is the better guitarplayer

Well, I'm more of a Van Halen fan than Queen, so I have to go with Dave.

But I do love me some Freddie, and he had such an amazing voice.

JediMaster said:

I agree.

lilgish said:

DLR Quotes...

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, buy you're encouraged.

When you're on the road for nine months a year and you always have these cute little chiquitas running around in their halter tops, it's kind of hard to worry about things like nuclear proliferation.

After you take out the managers' percentage, the agents' percentage, the money for the roadies, the lighting, the trucks, the buses, the sound and everything, the most I'll probably see as far as money goes after it's all said and done, is...an island.

Hey, your girlfriend was partying with us backstage before the show, and she had a message for ya: 'mmfp mmf umf fmff mmm.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

People think I have this strange concept of women, but they're wrong. I'm a family-oriented kind of guy. I've personally started four or five this year already!

People ask me, "so what about Van Halen today?" I tell 'em "hey I'm not in it, I don't give a shit." They say "so what about Valerie Bertinelli?" I say, same answer.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $8.50.


It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.

Whatever guy said that money don't buy you pleasure didn't know where to go shopping.

Old Van Halen, when I was in it-classic Van Halen-makes you wanna drink, dance and screw, right? And the new Van Halen encourages you to drink milk, drive a Nissan and have a relationship.

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza.


And my favorite DLR quote...

Why do music journalists prefer Elvis Costello to Van Halen? Because most music journalists LOOK like Elvis Costello.


Now that's Rock and Roll!


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

Those quotes are hysterical, and they (here's where I sound like an old man) make me miss the days of MTV when Van Halen and DLR were all over the place.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Ah, the good ol days of MTV.

theAudience said:

He's a paramedic now.
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Hotlegs said:

That's what I like about DLR. He has no grand illusions about who and what he is.
The man is quite content to play the Clown Prince of Rock.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

minneapolisgenius said:

David Lee Roth is? Seriously? Can you imagine him showing up at your door in the middle or a gastric attack? "I need to take a laxative!"

"Not in my store you don't!"

RipHer2Shreds said:

Yeah he is. He says no one ever recognizes him when he goes on calls.

Roth. He is THE rock frontman. He actually lived it. While the rest of the band mates were taking their months off drinking n smoking, Roth was in the jungles surviving, climbing mountains, extreme adventuring, going to the edge in general. Dude is a legend.

Hotlegs said:

Yes, when the M stood for "music"!

minneapolisgenius said:

Probably because he dresses like this when he's on call:



"Gimme a bottle of anything.....and a glazed doughnut.....to go!!!!"





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JediMaster said:

JediMaster said:

This is a thinly veiled USA VS UK thread

In UK, van halen wern't that well known. And ditto for Queen in USA.

thesexofit said:

Mercury by a hair, or should I say a mouthstache?

thesexofit said:

Ummm, NOT EVEN true. Queen are QUITE well known in the States. In the 70s and 80s they were quite big, having dozens of hits. Their popularity waned in the late 80s, but by then they were firmly established (you'd find it almost impossible to go to a sporting event today without hearing "We Will Rock You", and "We Are the Champions" plays after every SuperBowl, NBA Championship, World Series etc).

After Mercury's death, they still had resurgences, with "Bohemian Rhapsody" becoming a HUGE hit once again when the film Wayne's World came out. They've also garnered a whole lot of attention from songs like "Under Pressure" being covered and "I'm in Love With My Car", "Another One Bites The Dust" and "Body Language" being prominently featured in recent commercials.

Queen songs are a major staple of classic rock and AOR radio to this very day, so I really have no idea where you got this notion that they weren't well known in the US.